| broke | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: bust, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| broken | (adjective) physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split | - |
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| (adjective) not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly | - |
| (adjective) (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded | Synonyms: unkept |
| (adjective) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') | Synonyms: busted |
| (adjective) destroyed financially | Synonyms: impoverished, wiped out |
| (adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: confused, disordered, upset |
| (adjective) discontinuous | - |
| (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: crushed, humbled, humiliated, low |
| (adjective) weakened and infirm | - |
| (adjective) imperfectly spoken or written | - |
| (adjective) lacking a part or parts | - |
| (adjective) topographically very uneven | Synonyms: rugged |
| (adjective) tamed or trained to obey | Synonyms: broken in |
| brokenhearted | (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: heartbroken, heartsick |
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| bromic | (adjective) relating to or containing bromine (especially pentavalent bromine) | - |
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| bromidic | (adjective) given to uttering bromides | - |
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| (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: corny, platitudinal, platitudinous |
| bronchial | (adjective) relating to or associated with the bronchi | - |
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| bronchiolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving bronchioles | - |
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| bronchitic | (adjective) suffering from or prone to bronchitis | - |
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| bronchoscopic | (adjective) of or relating to an instrument for examining the interior of the bronchi | - |
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| bronze | (adjective) of the color of bronze | Synonyms: bronzy |
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| (adjective) made from or consisting of bronze | - |
| bronzed | (adjective) (of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun | Synonyms: suntanned, tanned |
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| bronzy | (adjective) of the color of bronze | Synonyms: bronze |
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| brooding | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| broody | (adjective) physiologically ready to incubate eggs | - |
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| (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
| brotherlike | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherly, fraternal |
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| brotherly | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherlike, fraternal |
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| brown | (adjective) (of skin) deeply suntanned | Synonyms: browned |
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| (adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | Synonyms: brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown |
| browned | (adjective) (of skin) deeply suntanned | Synonyms: brown |
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| brownish | (adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | Synonyms: brown, chocolate-brown, dark-brown |
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| bulletproof | (adjective) not penetrable by bullets | - |
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| (adjective) without flaws or loopholes | Synonyms: ironclad, unassailable, unshakable, watertight |
| burglarproof | (adjective) secure against burglary | - |
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| cadaverous | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaveric |
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| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
| calciferous | (adjective) bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite | - |
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| campylotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk | - |
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| cancerous | (adjective) like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or affected with cancer | - |
| cancroid | (adjective) of or relating to a cancroid | - |
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| cankerous | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: ulcerated, ulcerous |
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| canorous | (adjective) richly melodious | Synonyms: songful |
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| cantankerous | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: crotchety, ornery |
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| (adjective) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate | Synonyms: bloody-minded |
| carboniferous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carbonous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era | - |
| carnivorous | (adjective) (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of carnivores | - |
| carotid | (adjective) of or relating to either of the two major arteries supplying blood to the head and neck | - |
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| carousing | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic |
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| carposporous | (adjective) having carpospores | - |
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| carroty | (adjective) resembling the bright orange of the root of the carrot plant | - |
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| catadromous | (adjective) migrating from fresh water to the sea to spawn | - |
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| catastrophic | (adjective) extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| centroidal | (adjective) of or relating to (especially passing through) a centroid | - |
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| centromeric | (adjective) pertaining to the dense specialized portion of a chromosome to which the spindle attaches during mitosis | - |
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| centrosomic | (adjective) of or relating to a centrosome | - |
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| centrosymmetric | (adjective) having a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central point | Synonyms: radially symmetrical |
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| cerebrospinal | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and spinal cord | - |
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| cerebrovascular | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it | - |
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| cerous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing cerium with valence 3 | - |
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| chancroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having chancroids | - |
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| chancrous | (adjective) of or having chancres | - |
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| chelicerous | (adjective) having chelicerae | - |
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| cheliferous | (adjective) having chelae | - |
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| chiromantic | (adjective) of or relating to palmistry | - |
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| chivalrous | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: gallant, knightly |
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| chlorophyllose | (adjective) relating to or being or containing chlorophyll | Synonyms: chlorophyllous |
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| chlorophyllous | (adjective) relating to or being or containing chlorophyll | Synonyms: chlorophyllose |
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| chlorotic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis | Synonyms: greensick |
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| chromatic | (adjective) being or having or characterized by hue | - |
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| (adjective) based on a scale consisting of 12 semitones | - |
| (adjective) able to refract light without spectral color separation | - |
| chromatinic | (adjective) (of substance of a cell nucleus) readily colored by stains | - |
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| chromatographic | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographical |
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| chromatographical | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographic |
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| chromosomal | (adjective) of or relating to a chromosome | - |
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| chronic | (adjective) being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering | - |
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| (adjective) persisting for a long time | Synonyms: continuing |
| (adjective) habitual | Synonyms: inveterate |
| chronological | (adjective) relating to or arranged according to temporal order | - |
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| chyliferous | (adjective) transmitting chyle | - |
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| citrous | (adjective) of or relating to or producing fruit of the plants of the genus Citrus | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to plants of the genus Citrus | - |
| clamorous | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, strident, vociferous |
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| clangorous | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clanging |
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| claustrophobic | (adjective) suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places | - |
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| (adjective) uncomfortably closed or hemmed in | - |
| compromising | (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: conciliatory, flexible |
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| (adjective) vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion | - |
| confrontational | (adjective) of or relating to confrontation | - |
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| congenerous | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerical |
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| coniferous | (adjective) of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves | Synonyms: cone-bearing |
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| controllable | (adjective) capable of being controlled | Synonyms: governable |
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| controlled | (adjective) restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds | - |
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| controlling | (adjective) able to control or determine policy | - |
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| controversial | (adjective) marked by or capable of arousing controversy | - |
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| coronary | (adjective) surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart) | - |
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| coroneted | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: highborn, titled |
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| corroborant | (adjective) used of a medicine that is strengthening | - |
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| corroborative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| corroboratory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| corroded | (adjective) eaten away as by acid or oxidation | - |
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| corrosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) spitefully sarcastic | - |
| counterproductive | (adjective) tending to hinder the achievement of a goal | - |
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| counterterror | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterrorist |
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| counterterrorist | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterror |
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| creaseproof | (adjective) of fabric that does not wrinkle easily | Synonyms: crease-resistant, wrinkle-resistant, wrinkleproof |
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| crisscross | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscrossed |
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| crisscrossed | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscross |
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| croaky | (adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: guttural |
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| crocked | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| crocketed | (adjective) (of a gable or spire) furnished with a crocket (an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage) | - |
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| cromulent | (adjective) Legitimate or valid (frequently used ironically) | - |
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| crookback | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| crookbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| crooked | (adjective) having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned | - |
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| (adjective) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive | Synonyms: corrupt |
| (adjective) irregular in shape or outline | Synonyms: asymmetrical |
| (adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping |
| cropped | (adjective) (of land or soil) used for growing crops | - |
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| cross | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: thwartwise, transversal, transverse |
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| (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
| crossbred | (adjective) bred from parents of different varieties or species | - |
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| crossed | (adjective) placed crosswise | - |
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| (adjective) (of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it | - |
| crosshatched | (adjective) shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines | Synonyms: hatched |
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| crosstown | (adjective) going or extending across a town or city | Synonyms: cross-town |
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| crosswise | (adjective) lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction | - |
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| (adjective) in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross | - |